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	<title>Tower of Confusion &#187; Accents</title>
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		<title>Pronunciation-Wrestling</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/06/24/pronunciation-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last project at work, we dealt with a US telecommunication company. We had a team consisted of about 6-7 colleagues from the US and 4 of us from Canada, all &#8216;locked&#8217; in a conference room somewhere in the vicinity of Seattle.
Since our client was a telecommunication company, the word &#8216;Mobile&#8217; came up extremely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/15/o-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/15/o-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was compiling a collection of more than 25 different versions of the Canadian nation anthem &#8220;O Canada&#8221; for my daughter. The anthem is her favourite song besides, of course, the Alphabet song. I had been singing the anthem to her since she was 3-months old. Somehow, the tune worked great for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarier Than Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just delivered a Toastmasters speech on the past Wednesday, right on the Halloween. No, this was not the scary part. It was my first speech in 11 months. This was not that scary either. The real scary moment was when I received the recording afterwards, and I watched myself delivering my speech.
Many people, including [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>More on Accent Reduction Course</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/07/13/more-on-accent-reduction-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/07/13/more-on-accent-reduction-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent comment from my previous post  on “Accent Reduction Course”, Max asks if anyone knows a good course to help his friend on his English accent. His friend comes from Mainland China. Both Max and his friend are currently living in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have any reference in Hong Kong, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong English Accent</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/06/08/hong-kong-english-accent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/06/08/hong-kong-english-accent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was watching some Youtube video clips from the website 英文由F字學起 (Learn English starting from the &#8216;F&#8217; word). The series is for getting rid of the Hong Kong English accent. Unlike other typical accent reduction courses, the tutor specifically pinpoints the Hong Kong accent and talks about a lot of its [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hamburger</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/03/hamburger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/03/hamburger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the hilarious ‘hamburger’ screen from the movie ‘Pink Panther’.







www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0IT4Uk2xQ
It might seem ridiculous to most of us. How could it take so long for someone to learn to say such a simple sentence! But I am sure if you are a serious language learner, you must have experienced the same frustration before. It might [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Accent Switching</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/03/20/switching-accents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had never believed this could be done. A non-native speaker switches accents!
The other day I joined a skypecast, and I threw in one of the most commonly discussed topic on language learning: can a person become fluently in a foreign language without leaving his own country?
A person from the Philippines jumped in and started [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Search of RP Speakers</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/12/in-search-of-rp-speakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/12/in-search-of-rp-speakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Friday night, the time to host my ad-hoc skypecast again. In the past two weeks, I hosted the ‘Learn a Language Now’ skypecasts to talk about all kinds of languages. This time, I wanted to do something different. I created a skypecast called ‘In Search of RP English Speakers’, with the following description:
“I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Accent Reduction Course</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/01/05/accent-reduction-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/01/05/accent-reduction-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks he speaks his native language without any accent. Ask around and you will see how true this statement really is.
A few years ago, I took an English improvement course offered in my company which was provided by an external language consultant company. The course was called the “Accent Reduction Course”. Its purpose was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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